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Add the following to your ad blocker. (Tested on ublock origin)

www.google.*/xjs/*

a little warning this will break some google functionality.

Another option is to use greasemonkey

greasyfork.org/en/scripts/431719-remove-google-people-also-search-for

 

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Wednesday March 15, 2023 15:20

Is UTOvacation a scam?

You be the judge.  Below is the terms they don’t tell you before you pay (or after, I got an email almost 6 months after with these details):

“This is a sponsored tour. The sponsor requires that all passengers attend all the activities during the trip.
Not meeting this condition will lead to the revocation of the trip’s and traveller’s sponsorship, as the terms
and conditions and product page state, and as agreed to by the traveller before purchase. Each … Read the rest

After exporting to excel  select an empty column and put this in the first cell   Assuming D column has the amounts and E column has the debit/credit

=if(E1=”debit”,-D1,D1)

Then just pull down the box to replicate this formula on the rest of the rows.

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Apparently, the issue happens when there are no security questions in the account so follow these steps:

Go to TDAmeritrade security center and log in:

auth.tdameritrade.com/security-center?lang=en-us

Then click on the “Two-step security preference”

Then click on “Manage Security Questions”

Fill all questions options,  should work now!

 

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Sunday March 27, 2022 09:23

Loaf of bread recipe

Flour – 1200g

Water – 792g

Salt – 31g

Instant Yeast – 8g

Mix it all in a mixer for 5-10 minutes.  Let rise till doubled.

Preheat oven to 425F

Split dough to 2 loafs (kneed the balls first) and put in a loaf pan.

Let rise in the pan covered with a wet towel. About an 30 minutes to an hour.

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Tuesday March 15, 2022 13:39

How to get windows 10 taskbar on windows 11

Install explorer patcher:

github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases

Whoever approved these changes should be fired.

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Wednesday March 9, 2022 09:23

Adobe CS5 fails to update

Update the application manager:

Install the Adobe Application Manager 10 and then try Help>Updates from within photoshop cs5.

windows

download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/creativesuite/cc/win/ApplicationManager10.0_all.exe

mac

download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/creativesuite/cc/mac/ApplicationManager10.0_all.dmg

 

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Tuesday November 23, 2021 15:55

no bag entry mac install

If you are trying to install MAC OS on a laptop and you get the notorious “no bag entry” and the laptop as been sitting for a while, it’s possible that the time and date are incorrect and the apple server is rejecting the request just because of that.

To fix this when you are at the recovery page click on utilities and open terminal

type:

ntpdate -u time.apple.com This will update the date and time from apple time server. 
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Thursday October 29, 2020 09:17

Windows Server 2019 Timezone change

There seems to be a bug in windows server 2019 that doesn’t allow time zone change.

In order to change the time zone, go to command line in elevated administrator role.

run:

tzutil /l

This will list all the time zones, copy the time zone you want and run the following command:

tzutil /s “Eastern Standard Time”

 

In this case I selected “Eastern Standard Time”   You need to pick the zone you’re in.

 

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Thursday July 16, 2020 15:01

HJC RPHA 90 VS 90S

According to HJC rep the differences are minor but as follows:

  1. they changed the ratcheting system a little.
  2. It’s now compatible with the SMART HJC communication system.

 

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